insane GS rally

stocks ran rampant today, especially GS and POT.  i sold POT, right at the open today, sensing weakness, but it was a fakeout.  it opened near 112 and finished the day near 115.  i totally did not see that runup coming.  what was even more surprising was the runup on GS.  it was up around 146 or +4 from yesterday and i thought beautiful short and bought puts.  it then kept on going up, closing over +3 from where i bought for a total move of +7 to 149.  monster run.  i totally did not see that.  all i can say is, if you are a day trader, and you went long GS after a $4 open runup, you have gotta be insane.  

price movements make no sense anymore.  it's like somebody is manipulating the market ;)

anyway i had coffee at greenberry's.  too much coffee actually.  had to stand in line for a god awful long time to get my burger.  just for that they get no publicity.  went back home and closed my YM short for a loss, bringing my total YM profits for the day down to $24 :)  hey atleast it wasn't a loss.  i was playing safe with only 2 contracts throughout.  it was more for fun.

doubled down on GS near the close.  after a $7 run, it should give back some tomorrow and that way i can get out for near breakeven.  but, it's a risky play and i will definitely be up bright and early.

Underlying	Quantity	Action	Price	Description	Time	Date	Exch.	Commission
POT	10	SLD	13.20	JUN09 100.0 CALL Option PYPFT	09:31:30	20090604	CBOE	7.00
GS	1	BOT	10.70	JUN09 155.0 PUT Option GPYRK	09:42:23	20090604	BOX	0.75
GS	1	BOT	10.70	JUN09 155.0 PUT Option GPYRK	09:42:23	20090604	BOX	0.15
GS	1	BOT	10.70	JUN09 155.0 PUT Option GPYRK	09:42:23	20090604	BOX	0.45
GS	7	BOT	10.70	JUN09 155.0 PUT Option GPYRK	09:42:23	20090604	PHLX	4.90
YM	1	SLD	8685.0	JUN09 Futures YM JUN 09	10:35:50	20090604	ECBOT	2.13
YM	1	SLD	8685.0	JUN09 Futures YM JUN 09	10:35:50	20090604	ECBOT	2.13
YM	2	BOT	8670.0	JUN09 Futures YM JUN 09	10:41:04	20090604	ECBOT	4.26
YM	2	SLD	8705.0	JUN09 Futures YM JUN 09	10:57:04	20090604	ECBOT	4.26
YM	2	BOT	8700.0	JUN09 Futures YM JUN 09	11:25:23	20090604	ECBOT	4.26
YM	2	SLD	8705.0	JUN09 Futures YM JUN 09	13:10:08	20090604	ECBOT	4.26
YM	1	BOT	8720.0	JUN09 Futures YM JUN 09	15:00:15	20090604	ECBOT	2.13
YM	1	BOT	8720.0	JUN09 Futures YM JUN 09	15:00:16	20090604	ECBOT	2.13
GS	1	BOT	8.45	JUN09 155.0 PUT Option GPYRK	15:03:11	20090604	ISE	1.00
GS	1	BOT	8.45	JUN09 155.0 PUT Option GPYRK	15:03:11	20090604	ISE	0.40
GS	8	BOT	8.45	JUN09 155.0 PUT Option GPYRK	15:04:03	20090604	ISE	5.60

okay day

sold my NUE short, way too early. AH yesterday, STLD got smushed...and i had a gut feeling that steel and NUE would also crack worse than the prices i was seeing at the open, but after the IBM fiasco yesterday, where i was too slow to sell, i was out of the trade in 2 minutes in from open. i probably wouldn't have held till the afternoon when we saw max. smushage, but i should have been able to game another 400/500 off it easily. 5 more minutes actually.

GS...i was slow to get into that play. it cracked from 143, which would have been the correct entry point, but i did see weakness at 142 and thought that it would break inline with the rest of the market smushage. my first mistake was that i entered a speculative play, 145 puts, GS is at 142 and they are selling at 7. that's a $4 risk premium. second GS wasn't breaking, at least not in the clean break sort of way that i like. there was resistence. thirdly, the rest of the market was already close to the bottom, i could see, and this thing is still only down a duck. screw that, it was too risky. it was spiking around like mad, so on the next run up, i doubled down and on the next spike down, i dumped it for +.15 and +.2...not big profits, but i was glad to be out of that trade. within that set of spikes i could have gamed .20 cents more and later in the afternoon it did break 142, but around close it zoomed to 144 in 15 minutes.

why the long writeup, because this was well traded. i saw the impending break - good. watched closely for 30 minutes and saw it was too risky. exited the trade promptly. if you don't like it, get the fuck out of it.

the double down also needs to be explained. my initial position size of 10 was good, it's GS, don't go nutty. but, i screwed up by buying 145 puts...it was the type of option buy, which requires large moves on the underlying to really pay up. for $1 move in that, GS would have to move $2. i realized that within minutes and switched strategy to double down, to capitalize on the smallest of moves. i basically decided i was gonna be out of the trade within minutes. all of this only because of the ass lickin' PDT (pattern day trader rule). google my site to read my venting on it.

although i tracked the YM, i was too chickenshit to play. get this, around 3:42, i'm thinking this day is pretty much over and after looking at the charts, i enter an order to buy POT calls, at a price 20 cents lower than current spread. i'm thinking it'll either hit it or i'll fine tune the price or whatever. i had other stocks lined up as potential buys. so i'm looking at the YM and xx18 seems like a good short entry point, i enter click transmit, check on some stuff, go back and bam it's at xx32...wtf, it's zooming up at the end of the day again. a move of 60 points in minutes. luckily, my POT order went through just seconds ago and so my YM order didn't have enough money to get triggered. phew! thank you GOD>

btw, i figured out the reason for the end of the day spike. the big guys (and me) were waiting for mad smushage into the close. we had smushage, but we didn't have mad smushage. and so that meant, things were still safe and the swing trade was go long. the same time i went long POT, the big boys went long everything else and that pumped everything up big time, plus that kind of runup triggers all kinds of stops and short covering, which fuels the runup even more. that's why it's such a spike.

i feel very good here. i'm in touch with the trading flows. i'm synced. fingers crossed.

Underlying	Quantity	Action	Price	Description	Time	Date	Exch.	Commission
NUE	10	SLD	9.20	JUN09 55.0 PUT Option NUERK	09:30:57	20090603	NASDAQOM	7.00
GS	10	BOT	6.99	JUN09 145.0 PUT Option GS RI	13:09:28	20090603	NASDAQOM	4.50
GS	10	BOT	6.95	JUN09 145.0 PUT Option GS RI	13:30:28	20090603	ISE	7.00
GS	2	SLD	7.15	JUN09 145.0 PUT Option GS RI	14:05:53	20090603	ISE	1.40
GS	2	SLD	7.15	JUN09 145.0 PUT Option GS RI	14:05:53	20090603	ISE	1.40
GS	2	SLD	7.15	JUN09 145.0 PUT Option GS RI	14:05:53	20090603	ISE	1.40
GS	2	SLD	7.15	JUN09 145.0 PUT Option GS RI	14:05:53	20090603	ISE	1.40
GS	2	SLD	7.15	JUN09 145.0 PUT Option GS RI	14:05:53	20090603	ISE	1.40
GS	10	SLD	7.15	JUN09 145.0 PUT Option GS RI	14:05:58	20090603	ISE	7.00
POT	10	BOT	12.00	JUN09 100.0 CALL Option PYPFT	15:44:45	20090603	PSE	7.00

good day

too exhausted to blog....enjoy the trades :)

Underlying	Quantity	Action	Price	Description	Time	Date	Exch.	Commission
NUE	10	SLD	8.70	JUN09 55.0 PUT Option NUERK	09:37:09	20090602	NASDAQOM	7.00
IBM	20	SLD	3.20	JUN09 110.0 PUT Option IBMRB	09:39:25	20090602	NASDAQOM	14.00
YM	4	SLD	8735.0	JUN09 Futures YM JUN 09	11:01:21	20090602	ECBOT	8.52
YM	1	BOT	8730.0	JUN09 Futures YM JUN 09	11:09:03	20090602	ECBOT	2.13
YM	2	BOT	8730.0	JUN09 Futures YM JUN 09	11:09:03	20090602	ECBOT	4.26
YM	1	BOT	8730.0	JUN09 Futures YM JUN 09	11:09:04	20090602	ECBOT	2.13
YM	4	SLD	8735.0	JUN09 Futures YM JUN 09	11:12:04	20090602	ECBOT	8.52
YM	3	BOT	8725.0	JUN09 Futures YM JUN 09	11:15:51	20090602	ECBOT	6.39
YM	1	BOT	8725.0	JUN09 Futures YM JUN 09	11:15:51	20090602	ECBOT	2.13
YM	3	BOT	8710.0	JUN09 Futures YM JUN 09	11:37:38	20090602	ECBOT	6.39
YM	1	BOT	8710.0	JUN09 Futures YM JUN 09	11:37:38	20090602	ECBOT	2.13
YM	1	SLD	8705.0	JUN09 Futures YM JUN 09	11:40:19	20090602	ECBOT	2.13
YM	3	SLD	8705.0	JUN09 Futures YM JUN 09	11:40:22	20090602	ECBOT	6.39
YM	4	SLD	8705.0	JUN09 Futures YM JUN 09	12:46:10	20090602	ECBOT	8.52
YM	4	BOT	8704.0	JUN09 Futures YM JUN 09	12:50:40	20090602	ECBOT	8.52
YM	4	SLD	8734.0	JUN09 Futures YM JUN 09	13:51:45	20090602	ECBOT	8.52
YM	1	BOT	8730.0	JUN09 Futures YM JUN 09	14:00:06	20090602	ECBOT	2.13
YM	1	BOT	8730.0	JUN09 Futures YM JUN 09	14:00:06	20090602	ECBOT	2.13
YM	2	BOT	8730.0	JUN09 Futures YM JUN 09	14:00:06	20090602	ECBOT	4.26
YM	4	SLD	8745.0	JUN09 Futures YM JUN 09	14:21:45	20090602	ECBOT	8.52
YM	4	BOT	8738.0	JUN09 Futures YM JUN 09	14:25:50	20090602	ECBOT	8.52
YM	1	SLD	8755.0	JUN09 Futures YM JUN 09	14:46:06	20090602	ECBOT	2.13
YM	3	SLD	8755.0	JUN09 Futures YM JUN 09	14:46:06	20090602	ECBOT	6.39
YM	4	BOT	8745.0	JUN09 Futures YM JUN 09	14:50:13	20090602	ECBOT	8.52
NUE	2	BOT	7.70	JUN09 55.0 PUT Option NUERK	15:46:12	20090602	PSE	1.40
NUE	8	BOT	7.70	JUN09 55.0 PUT Option NUERK	15:46:12	20090602	PSE	5.60

slow day

due to a bad habit i spent most of the morning chasing dreams in my bed. justifiably, i was a little eager to get back to trading, especially as today was my smush YM, in the ass, day. okay, i only put "in the ass" because...well...YM treated me that way on friday. sob, yes i was treated oh so badly, so vilely....okay sorry...so my first trade i short the YM and within minutes i see it's a bad trade, but my brain's still doozy and i watch it run up and then sit there marvelling at my stupidity. well i watched tv in between. animal planet rocks. anyway i was able to collapse for a minor loss and after that, just from watching the tape, i had got my rhythm back.

the easy money was in the morning runup. well, easy...if your watching the damn chart in the afternoon. hahaha..ha. day trading humor.

well, i reversed and went long. made up my loss and some extra cash. GS was very weak. i think this rally may have a dip tomorrow morning. went short NUE, was gonna double down, but then realized this was a strong commodity rally...so instead shorted IBM. large speculative position in IBM, but fairly confident it's runup is bogus. weakness at close confirmed, but tomorrow's another day.

had a mango. nectar of gods.

Underlying	Quantity	Action	Price	Description	Time	Date	Exch.	Commission
YM	4	SLD	8700.0	JUN09 Futures YM JUN 09	13:20:34	20090601	ECBOT	8.52
YM	4	BOT	8710.0	JUN09 Futures YM JUN 09	14:53:45	20090601	ECBOT	8.52
YM	4	BOT	8700.0	JUN09 Futures YM JUN 09	15:12:47	20090601	ECBOT	8.52
YM	4	SLD	8720.0	JUN09 Futures YM JUN 09	15:29:40	20090601	ECBOT	8.52
NUE	10	BOT	8.20	JUN09 55.0 PUT Option NUERK	15:34:57	20090601	PSE	7.00
IBM	20	BOT	3.10	JUN09 110.0 PUT Option IBMRB	15:42:01	20090601	PSE	14.00